Beyond Ethnicity
New Politics of Race in Hawai'i
Will be published approx. on 30. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-8248-6989-2 (ISBN)
Description
Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai'i's myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai'i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference is celebrated as a sign of multicultural globalism that designates Hawai'i as the crossroads of the Pacific. Racial inequality is disruptive to the tourist image of the islands. It ruptures the image of tolerance, diversity, and happiness upon which tourism, business, and so many other vested transnational interests in the islands are based. The contributors of this interdisciplinary volume reconsider Hawai'i as a model of ethnic and multiracial harmony through the lens of race in their analysis of historical events, group relations and individual experiences, and humor, among other focal points. Beyond Ethnicity examines the dynamics between race, ethnicity, and indigeneity to challenge the primacy of ethnicity and cultural practices for examining difference in Hawai'i while recognizing the significant role of settler colonialism. This original and thought-provoking volume reveals what a racial analysis illuminates about the current political configuration of the islands and, in doing so, challenges how we conceptualize race on the continent.
Recognizing the ways that Native Hawaiians or Kanaka Maoli are impacted by shifting, violent, and hierarchical colonial structures that include racial inequalities, the editors and contributors explore questions of personhood and citizenship through language, land, labor, and embodiment. By admitting to these tensions and ambivalences, the editors set the pace and tempo of powerfully argued essays that engage with the various ways that Kanaka Maoli and the influx of differentially racialized settlers continue to shift the social, political, and cultural terrains of the Hawaiian Islands over time.
Recognizing the ways that Native Hawaiians or Kanaka Maoli are impacted by shifting, violent, and hierarchical colonial structures that include racial inequalities, the editors and contributors explore questions of personhood and citizenship through language, land, labor, and embodiment. By admitting to these tensions and ambivalences, the editors set the pace and tempo of powerfully argued essays that engage with the various ways that Kanaka Maoli and the influx of differentially racialized settlers continue to shift the social, political, and cultural terrains of the Hawaiian Islands over time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Honolulu, HI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 black & white illustration
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8248-6989-2 (9780824869892)
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Camilla Fojas is associate professor in the Departments of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Virginia.
Rudy P. Guevarra Jr is associate professor of Asian Pacific American studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.
Nitasha Tamar Sharma is associate professor of Asian American studies and African American studies at Northwestern University.
Jonathan Y. Okamura is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawai'i.
Gary Y. Okihiro is a professor of international and public affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
John P. Rosa is assistant professor of history at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Aiko Yamashiro is a poet, a founding editor of Vice-Versa, a graduate student in English, and an instructor of de/anti-colonial literature of Hawai'i.
Rudy P. Guevarra Jr is associate professor of Asian Pacific American studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.
Nitasha Tamar Sharma is associate professor of Asian American studies and African American studies at Northwestern University.
Jonathan Y. Okamura is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawai'i.
Gary Y. Okihiro is a professor of international and public affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
John P. Rosa is assistant professor of history at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Aiko Yamashiro is a poet, a founding editor of Vice-Versa, a graduate student in English, and an instructor of de/anti-colonial literature of Hawai'i.